50cl bottle pours with a dark amber body that supports an off white head of foam. The modest aroma offers up sort of roasted malt notes, sort of chocolate malts and then some nuttiness followed by a touch of sweet dark fruity esters. The taste begins with a mix of sweet malts, nuttiness and slivers of chocolate malts. It then quickly picks up prunes and raisins as the modest chocolate note moves forward. Pretty nice stuff.

The bottle that I picked up at the Friar Tuck in Bloomington, IL, listed this as 4.7% ABV. It poured a deep, clear reddish brown with a creamy, sustained ecru head that provided plenty of lace. It smelled of sweet wort and caramel and tasted pretty much the same but stopped just short of being cloying. Not bad.

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